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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Discoveries at Ancient sidon.

Only few weeks have elapsed since the
world Of archaeology was highly interested by
the news of a most important archaeological
"ind" in the neighborhood of the ancient
Sidon. The discovery was made by DR.
Eddy, an American missionary, who resides at
Saida. In garden adjacent to the town he
discovered shaft, which ON being explored
was found to communicate with a rock cut
temple OF tomb, containing several sarcophagi
of Graco-Phoenician work. One of these with
friezes representing warlike combats and
hunting scenes was said by an archeologist
who examined it to be one of the most mag
nifcent specimens of art ever discovered.
The Turks refused to allow photographs to
be taken or to admit any Franks to the tomb,
and, to the regret of science, news has just
reached this country that this priceless work
of art, together with several statues, have
been broken to pieces, and that heads, arms,
and other fragments are being offered for sale
in the bazars.-Cor. Manchester Guardian.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
TIE WOMAN WHO soRRows.
Few Neighborhoods are Free from Her.
She ssNexer Thinks.V

She Never Thinks"
The woman borrower fiourishes in nearly
all stations and conditions of life, and few
neighborhoods are free from her. She seems
to live with the idea that any ones and every
ones possessions are legitimately hers, for
time at least, and borrows promiscuously
from all. 1t does not matter to her what the
article is, or of what value it may be to the
owner, if she thinks she ought to have it, If
told that the article wanted is relic, of which
you think great deal, owing to being gift
or a reminder of some old association, and
you do not like to lend it to any one, she will
smooth it all over with, "rll be so careful of
it; won't harm it in the least" She over
comes all your little excuses with her prom
ises of carefuness, and goes away happy in
the possession of the article, while you are in
a continual worry until its return.
Ii brought back safely, you nre very
thankful, for it was hardly what YOU cx-
pected, but if anything happens to it, there
is nothing to be done but to accept her
apology.
She tells you she is sincerely sorry that
anything should have happened to it, and, if
the article was something that it was neces-
sary for her to have, you excuse her willingly;
but usually this is not the case, for it is
something that she does not need. unless for
ornamentation, and you can't help thinking
that she might have done without it, An
accident of this kind would deter most wo-
men from borrowing from the sama person
again, but not so with the woman borrower;
she is ready to borrow the very next
day from the same person, providing
she has anything that she may want.
She never thinks that people may not
wish to loan some things, yet will often do so,
really against their Judgment rather than
refuse, thinking refusal might hurt her
feelings. She is always cle of the best ma
tured people among your acquaintances, and
is really sincere when she says, 'You are
welcome to anything have, I am sure" but
she seldom has anything you want.
Borrowing is all very well when it ueces-
sary, and frequently the best of housekeepers
has to borrow from her neighbors. She has
forgotten to order some article that she can.
not get along without, the store may be ut a
distance, or she cannot go, and has no one to
do the same errand for her, so the best she
can do is to borrow from a neiglbor She
goes to the woman borrower, and that person
remarks: II was Just going over to your
house for that same thing.n Tho neighhor
says; "Oh, never mind, I'll get it of Mrs.
-" and she can't help thinking, Does she
have anythings"
There is one thing that the woman Dor.
rover never borrows, and for which she
should be commended She never borrows
trouble. She only makes it little easier foi
| her neighbors to borrow that commodity
Boston Budget.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
A Hint to Smokers.

Says man who is himself great smoker:
"What can men be thinking of who light
cigars or cigarettes, not only on the elevated
stations, but sometimes before they get off
the carsi They surely forget that they are
making themselves offensive to any ladies
who may be present, not to speak of men.
Such lack of consideration on the part of pre-
sumably well bred men is incomprehensible
to me, and makes me almost determine to
give up smoking, much as l enjoy it,; for it
looks as though the habit of smoking tended
to make men Indifferent to the rights of
otherSn
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
INFORMATION ABOUT ARt,ANsAW.
A Fine Collection of Native Grasses-A
Curious Library.


When a stranger with credentials drops into
Little Rock and expresses desire to obtain
some information about Arkansaw he is at
once presented to Professor Thomas, and the
latter saws ''come with me-" and introduces
him to his museum. This museum gives the
stranger a very fair idea of what Arkansaw
can do in the line of production without try
ing very hard. 1t contains, for one thing,
collection of 155 different kinds of grasses.
"Not bad for grass" Professor Thomas will
say in an unconcerned manner, but watching
the visitor closely to see that the size and
character of the collection has had its proper
effect. Against the walls hang stalks of cot
ton, corn and other cereals. In shining glass
jars are preserved, in alcohol, specimens of
fruit such as northern market seldom sees
In a state of nature; plums as big as peaches,
and peaches twice as large as they ought to be
in northern eyes, Strawberries five inches in
circumference, oranges as fine as Florida ever
grew, and apples cf a size and quality such as
New York farmers never dreamed of pro-
ducing. owe grow everything that can be
produced in four degrees of latitude, says the
professor, "for there is just that difference in
the 240 miles of territory between the northern
and southern boundaries of the state"
But what a curious library The covers
of the books are of wood, each different
specimen. The visitor picks up book, He
finds that it is a solid bit of wood in the
shape of handy volume. Jay Gould, while
on visit not long ago, spent more time ex-
amining the library than he gave to the rest
of the museum. The library was worth the
time, too, for imagine one consisting of tones
made from white oak, red oak, black oak,
chestnut, American beech, birch, red cedar,
yellow pine, pitch pine, willow, poplar, cy-
press, sold field" or long leayed pine, bois
dare, black walnut. hickory several varie-
ties, white and red maple, box elder, black
| locust, black sumac, water locust, coffee bean,
wild plum, holly, Eastwood, papaw bay, UNI
brella, wild cherry, sweet gum, elm several
varieties), sycamore, witchhazel, butternut.
pecan, hickory, and twenty or more other
woods. A majority of the woods are hand
some enough to be used for decorative pur-
poses, and all of them have their purpose
| New York Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
A Young Physician,s beginning.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press tells this story
about one of the prominent physicians of that
city. When he was 16 years of age he left
home to teach school in a neighboring village.
He had expressed strong taste for the medi-
cal profession, and when he returned home
the next spring his father told him that he
might begin to study medicine if he chose
"Study!" exclaimed the boy; "why l have
been practicing all winter" His father then
learned that an epidemic of measles had
struck the neighborhood where his hopeful
son was teaching during the winter, and that
he bought a case of medicines, read up on the
disease and set himself up as healer with
great success. His spare time after schoo
hours put in this way had laid the foundation
of his future professional reputation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Herr Fortelka, lieutenant in the Austrian
army, during the first campaign in Bosnia re-
ceived bullet in his right eye, and speedily
became totally blind. Since his blindness he
has invented, in addition to magazine rife,
a new micrometer, an apparatus for automa-
tic mapping, a new sort of gunpowder, two
machines for authorization of metals at a
small cost, and a number of smaller devices.
"When either great OF minute measurements
are in question:" says Herr Fortelka, "those
who see with their eyes are often wrong,
while I, who see with my fingers, am right. "
The models of his inventions have been en-
tirely made by himself with the help of pieces
of wood, string, and wire.-New York Sun
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Victoria Morosini's Husband.

met Mr.. Huelscamp the other day on q
Sixth avenue car, industriously collecting
fares, and do you know begin to admire the
patient and uncomplaining manner in which
he has gone Oh earning decent and humble
livelihood in the face Of the largest possible
provocation from'the other side of the Hues-
camp question! Not word seems ever to
have passed his lips against the wife who de-
serted him, for after all she was his wife and
married him with her eyes open, nor even
against the relatives who have endeavored to
cover him with coating of mud several feet
thick. | am not an admirer of coachmen
who run away with their masters daughters,
but this thing having been done by Mr..
Huelscamp, has he not since acted with re-
markable discretion and commen sense2-
Truth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
NO. "a.
sEEcHER's ssNTeNrloUs WISDOM.
A Partial Collection of Proverbs from
pLymouth Pulpit.

A Partial Collection of Proverbs from
Plymouth Pulpit.
Every farm should own a good farmer.
A man never has good luck who has bad
wife.
The masses against the classes, the world
over
A man who does not love praise is not q
full man.
A man must ask leave Of his stomach to DO
happy man.
1t takes longer for man to find out man
than any other creature that is made.
Flowers are the sweetest things that God
ever made and forgot to put soul into.
A man without self restraint is like barrel
without hoops and tumbles to pieces.
Whoever makes home seem to the young
dearer and more happy is a public bene-
factor.
The greatest event in hens life is made
up of an egg and a cackle. But eagles never
caclle.
A proud man is seldom grateful man, for
he never thinks that he gets as much as ho
deserves.
That cannot he healthy condition i'm
which few prosper and the great mass ara
drudges
Communities are blest in the proportion i'm
which money is diffuseS through tho whole
range of population.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all
one thing-it is getting money without Civ
ing an equivalent for it.
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the
hat
newspaper, is our national glory.
One of the original tendencies of the hu-
man mind, fundamental and universal, is the
love of other peoples private affairs.
| This is a good world to sin in; but, SO far
as men are concerned, it is very hard world
TO repent in. 1t is a bitter world; it is a cruel
world.
Poverty is very good in poems, but IL Is
very bad In house. Il is very good in
maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in
| practical life.
A cow is the saint of the barnyarti She
could be fat if she only would he selfish But
she economies beauty that she may be pro-
| fuse in milk.
No city bred man has any business to ex-
pect satisfaction in pure country life for
two months unless he has genius for leisure
| and even laZiness.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding
him hand and foot and letting him hang upon
the fatal mesh until the long legged interest
! devours him.
Our government is built upon the vote.
But votes that are purchasable are quick
sands, and government built on them stands
upon corruption and revolution.
|
A man is q great bundle of tools He Is
born into this life without the knowledge of
how to use them. Education is the process
of flearning their use, and dangers and troubles
are Gods whetstones with which TO keep
them sharp,-Appletons proverbs from
Plymouth Pulpit"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Probably am the only person in st. Louis
having one of the famous pixies made by
John Brown to arm the negroes of his pro-
visional government in February, 1852.
When in Collinsville, Conn, Brown ordered
the manufacture of 1000 pixies by local
firm, and in 1858 ordered them forwarded to
Chambersburg, Pa, whence they were trans
ported across the country to the Kennedy
farm, near Harper's Ferry. From there they
were scattered around in various places One
lot was stored in the Mount Vernon (Ala.)
arsenal, which subsequently burned. The
pixies and lot of metal were afterward sent
to the Rock Island Qlls.) arsenal, to be rolled
into iron, but the mill was never opened up,
and they We're scattered around the country
as relics.-Thomas Doughty in Globe-D Demo-
crat
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

The Shah of Persia Sas authorized the
American missionaries to establish at Teheran
hospital in which, without regard to ma
tionality or religion, all applicants for relief
may be received for treatment. DR.. Tor
renee, physician to the mission, has been ap-
pointed director of the hospital, and an ap-
peal is made for means to place it upon a
working basis. For immediate use $1,000 is
needed, and $4,000 will be necessary to COM
plete the establishment. AS mark of ap-
preciauion of DR.. Torrence's zeal and devo-
ton, applied gratuitously for many years in
the relief of Distress the shah has named him
Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and
Sun of Persia,-New York Tribune,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

He-Your friend seems to be very
pleasant young lady, Miss Breezy. l quite
admire her.
Miss Breezy (of Chicago)-Ye-es, Clara can
be pleasant and agreeable if she wants to,
but she lacks that indefinable air of culture
and refinement without which young ladies
In society labor under such disadvantages l
have always admired Clara's qualities of
heart, but have never been what you might
call stuck ON her style.-New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Photo Matrimonial Souvenirs.

A new charm or noTelty will henceforth be
associated with fashionable weddings Mr..
lockwood, Of Union square, has arranged TO
photograph wedding parties, bride, groom,
clergyman and "best friends" ut the house of
the parties or at the church, before or after
the ceremony, by new adaptation of the
magnesium light. This is US good or better
than marriage certificate, and certainly an
interesting souvenir of the ssent.-Home
Journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

A snaips pace need not be used any longer
as term more or less indefinite. By an in
teresting experiment. at the Polytechnic the
other day it was ascertained exactly and re-
duced to figures, which may now be quoted
by persons who favor the use of exact terms
A half dozen of the mollusks were permitted
to crawl between two points ten feet apart,
and the average pace was ascertained. From
this it was easy enough to calculate that one
snail can crawl a mile in just fourteen days.
-Terre Haute Express
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

The people of Iturbide, Mexico, have been
officially notified that on and after June 8
eall male residents are required to wear pam
falcons" Those gentlemen who neglect to
comply with the order will be fined. This is
an instance of civiizing by general orders
and is not merely the first move of a ''com-
bine" between the government and the tailors.
Years ago the Brazilian government issued
an order that no person not wearing collar
should be admitted to the horse cars of Rio
Janeiro. The effect was not only to promote
the sale of collars, but to keep very disa-
greeable class out of the cars.-Boston Tran
.,,Nf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
s'The Bread Winners"

When Col. John Hay is asked what de-
cidedly seems an impertinent question-"Are
you the author Of 'The Bread WinnersP' he
answers with blank smile: "In general |
have not much to conceal, but this thing Is
the secret of six of us who have been accused
by the public of this fiagrancy. Now, if five
of us separately confess that we are not the
guilty party, it convicts the sixth defendant,
and we have mutually decided to stand by
the author of THE Bread Winners in his
secret sin. You see the situationw The cor
respondent of The Baltimore News saw it,
when presented to him the other day.-New
York Trihune
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Diet for Athletes.

A less restricted diet in athletic training is
being favored in England, and, instead of the
large proportion of meat formerly rigidly in
sisted on, physiologists now consider variety
of food essential to the best results. The
Cambridge boat crew, in training for the
race with Oxford, were this year permitted
to eat fish, puddings and dessert, though still
forbidden sugar with pastry, ,-Arkansaw
Traveller
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Statistics of the Churches.

The Independent says that statistics show
that the churches of the United States have
communicates as follows: Methodist Epis-
copal, 4,346, SIG; Romau Catholic, 100000;
Episcopal, 430, ISL; Moravian, 10,6S6; Baptist,
3,6S2,007; Congregationalist, 436,379; Chris
tian Union, 10000; Friend, 10000; Ad-
ventist, 97,71; Methodist, 1880; Presby-
terian, 1,OSa, ,436: Lutheran, 930, $50; Re-
formed, 259,974; German Evangelical, 1885,
900; Mennonites, $4,000; Church of God,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
David Hunter Strother.

Readers of Harpers Magazine of thirty
years ago will be glad to know that "Porte
Crayon," whose pen and pencil sketches of
life in the south in thoss days were so charm
ing, is passing peaceful and prosperous old
age in his native state, Virginia. His real
name is David Hunter Strother, and his SER
vice i'll the Union army during the war of
the rebellion entities him to the title of "gen-
eral" Gen. Strother is 70 years old and in
r,arfaof baaf4b
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Nevada's Little Daughter.

Mme Emma Nevada and her husband, DR..
Palmer, have a pretty little S-months-old
daughter named Mignon. The child was
born in France, her mother is an American
and her father is an Englishman. Moreover,
Mime. Nevada will talk French to her, DR..
Palmer will talk English and the nurse will
speak only German, SO the little one bids fair
to be quite cosmopolitan.-New York Trib-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Incivility to a Dude.

A Pullman conductor on the Delaware and
Lackawanna road had an experience some
time ago that he will not soon forget. Com
ing out of the depot at Elmira he was con-
fronted by dude with an eyeglass and big
cane, who said: "Aw, going to Buffalo to-
nightg" "Bet your life we are" answered the
conductor rather rbrusquely, as he hn<xied to
his car. When he got to New York he was
suspended for ten days for incivility to passen-
gers. The dude was spotter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
For 1OO-Year-O,d Ladies',

A Philadelphia firm makes practice Of
giving an excellent lace cap, trimmed with
lavender ribbons, on which are embroidered
the words, "One Hundred Years." to each
woman in the state who lives to celebrate her
Tooth birthday. The latest recipient of the
cap was Mrs. Mary Brunner, of Derry, who
was born May II, 1857.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

The Chinese version of Solomon's Judg-
nlent is that when the case of two mothers
and one child came before a wise mandarin
he handed the matter over to his wife for de-
cision. She ordered that the child's clothes
should secretly be put on a fish, which, thus
disguised, should be thrown into the river
This was done, and the woman who ran
shreking into the water to save the child was
declared to be the mother.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Had to Give 1t Un.

1t is told of DR., Thomas, now assistant
bishop of Kansas, who was renowned in Yale
and after his graduation as a chess player,
that suddenly he gave up his favoritc game
Asked the reason for his conduct, he said:
~ found that l took SO much interest in the
game that when / was beaten, it aroused in
me feelings that / could not conscientiously
entertain. There was nothing loft for me to
do but to give up chess New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Mr.. H. Rider Haggard's list of books which,
he says, have influenced him in his career as
an author consists of "Robinson Crusoe,D
1.-THE Arabian Nights" "The Three Mus
keteers," Poe, Macaulay, etc., etc. His fa-
vorite novels are Dickens "The Tale of Two
Cities" and Lytton's "The Coming Race +"
His favorite book in the Bible is Ecclesiastes
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
A Skillful WOrkm nan.

Ed Peck, of Woodstock, Ga, is noted in
those parts for his skill in doing jobs that re-
quire delicacy and accuracy. Recently he
mended the winding chain of watch by
drilling hole so small that the point of a
needle served as rivet. So small was the
amount of point used that its absence could
not be detected by one sewing with the needle
afterward. New York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
An Eminent Engineer.

The late Thomas Stevenson, the eminent
Scotch engineer, was the father of Mr. Robert
Louis Stevenson, the popular writer. He
was the author of many valuable inveh tions,
particularly relating to lighthouses, but as he
was engineer of the lighthouse commission he
declined all personal profit from them.-New
York Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Prince Abraham Hilmy has nearly COM
pleted bis historical work on Egypt, which
will contain long articles on the Soudan and
the Pyramids He will next devote himself
to unraveling the mysterious connection be
tween "Masonic rites' and the early Egyptian
ceremonials Boston Budget
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

The total eclipse of the sun on Aug. 10
will be visible all over Russia from the Baltic
to eastern Siberia. Astronomers from the
United States, England, Russia, Germany,
Italy and France are arranging to observe
the phenomenon from at least five different
stations ns-Arkansaw Traveller
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

An inventor in Auburn, Me-, who says that
he has worked 760 days of ten hours each in
the last two years, and very few of them on
Sundays, attributes his endurance largely to
the fact that he eats but one meal in twenty
four hours and that very Simnlr
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Gen. Boulanger, the French minister of
war, is no carpet general. Between 1859 and
1871 inclusive he was wounded four times.
In the Franco German war he had his elbow
broken by ball
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16
Two Million Circulation.

"The Publishers Bulletin new weekly
just started in this city, says that DR.. Talmage
will soon begin to write weekly syndicate
letter for number of newspapers His SER
mons are already published by large syndi-
cate of newspapers, and are said to have
circulation of 2,000,0 900 week
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-16

Mrs Custer is conscientious correspond
ent. "Boots and Saddles" has called out up
to date some 500 letters of inquiry or con-
graduation, and she has answered them
every one.